Longtime_lurker2019
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He blocked him in from behind. Hence the false imprisonment.
Prosecutor is playing a dangerous game here.
False Imprisonment | Georgia Criminal Lawyer
Closer Look at the Law Behind False Imprisonment in Georgia After Family Violence Incident in Hall County | Georgia Criminal Lawyer
False imprisonment in Georgia is only applicable if it can be proven that the victim had no other reasonable means of escape.
The video shows Arbery running towards the redneck’s truck, and not in any number of directions away from the road and where no vehicle could even go because of the trees and brush. He was not even close to legally confined under any definition or case law in the state.
All in all, looking at past case law it seems like a difficult case to make. An acquittal is exactly the kind of event that could make the prosecution‘s case against the other defendants significantly more difficult and would become a key part of the defense’s case. This is assuming his case goes before their trials, and it seems highly likely it would.
Are you saying AA should have known they wouldn't shoot him because they hadn't done it yet?
MOO moving targets are the point of shotguns.It was a shotgun, most likely loaded with buckshot, not a sniper rifle. You're not killing anything "far away" with a shotgun. Even if they were rifled slugs you would have to be an excellent shot to hit a 10x10 steel plate which would be equivalent to center mass at over 50 yards. That's half of a football field.
Let alone hit a running target.
So No, that's not the point of guns.
Moo.
Honking to break the situation. You're focusing on this statement. Are you of the opinion he should not have been arrested?
MOO moving targets are the point of shotguns.
MOO moving targets are the point of shotguns.
As an adult, I have entered new builds to check out the layouts. I am in a recently built home, one of many, and it was a common occurrence to see people driving around the subdivision, after the workers had left, checking out the size of the basements (if they had walkouts, since there were no stairs from the ground floor). No one seemed suspicious to me, where I thought they were casing the buildings.
As a child, my friends and I entered new builds (this was in England) and old, vacant buildings. Why? Because kids are curious. It didn't make me a criminal. I also sneaked into movie theatres to watch another movie after the one I paid for ended.
There's whole YT videos dedicated to filming abandoned shopping malls, derelict automobile factories and forgotten mansions. Its a fascinating element to the human condition.
I don't believe anyone's been shot for doing it, though.
Also a .357 and whatever WB racked in his car.At close range. Under 50 yards.
What's the Maximum Effective Range of Buckshot? - Lucky Gunner Lounge
Moo.
I have to respectfully disagree with you on this.
I was thinking that a .357 (GM's weapon) was meant for a longer shot with the shotgun being more for intimidation purposes. (much longer range, up to 125 yards)
He blocked him in from behind. Hence the false imprisonment.
A .357 isn't meant to scare. It's to kill.
But blocking someone from behind, even in a truck, is unlikely to clear the threshold for a conviction of false imprisonment. As the example of the webpage I linked mentioned, someone locked in a room on the first floor in a building can just climb out of the window: no false imprisonment. If being locked in a room on the first floor doesn't clear the bar for false imprisonment, than blocking someone from behind in a car is even less likely to meet it. And the video shows the event taking place on a road with massive amounts of open space for someone to run to off the road, and even through trees and brush where an individual can easily move to but vehicles most likely could not.
In the end, I am not a big fan of murder charges against a non gunman. Negligent homicide- yes.
I have to disagree here. AA was running in residential neighborhood...with fences around property. They had been chasing him and cutting him off for 4 minutes. They blocked him in with armed vehicles.Prosecutor is playing a dangerous game here.
False Imprisonment | Georgia Criminal Lawyer
Closer Look at the Law Behind False Imprisonment in Georgia After Family Violence Incident in Hall County | Georgia Criminal Lawyer
False imprisonment in Georgia is only applicable if it can be proven that the victim had no other reasonable means of escape.
The video shows Arbery running towards the redneck’s truck, and not in any number of directions away from the road and where no vehicle could even go because of the trees and brush. He was not even close to legally confined under any definition or case law in the state.
All in all, looking at past case law it seems like a difficult case to make. An acquittal is exactly the kind of event that could make the prosecution‘s case against the other defendants significantly more difficult and would become a key part of the defense’s case. This is assuming his case goes before their trials, and it seems highly likely it would.
Probably more like five men.Can't wait to read the cell phone text transcripts between these three men.
But blocking someone from behind, even in a truck, is unlikely to clear the threshold for a conviction of false imprisonment. As the example of the webpage I linked mentioned, someone locked in a room on the first floor in a building can just climb out of the window: no false imprisonment. If being locked in a room on the first floor doesn't clear the bar for false imprisonment, than blocking someone from behind in a car is even less likely to meet it. And the video shows the event taking place on a road with massive amounts of open space for someone to run to off the road, and even through trees and brush where an individual can easily move to but vehicles most likely could not.